Garlic Knot

Definitely will be returning again with my friends.

A slice was taken from my pizza. It was raw in the middle.
Cheesecake was dry n old
Cannolis were gritty not smooth n creamy. Very bad.

We order take out from The Garlic Knot regularly but I’ve never taken the time to review them until now because we recently used their catering service for the night before our wedding dinner.
We had decided to have our dinner in a suite in the hotel our guests were staying at so we could turn it into a trivia night. Neither my husband nor myself are Floridians, so all of our guests were here from out of town and most, native New Yorkers. I’m not talking rural upstate New York, I’m talking straight out of Brooklyn. We couldn’t serve them less than par pizza.
Our guests loved the food, which says a lot coming from New Yorkers, and our order was ready to go, despite being very large, perfectly on time and hot and delicious despite US being late to pick it up. There was some sort of mix up with my bank, we’d paid for the food well in advance but for some reason, Wells Fargo reversed the charge. The Garlic Knot called me while I was on my honeymoon to find out if they could run the card again, which of course I agreed to, having eaten the food already, but when they found out we were on our honeymoon, they offered to wait until we returned so as not to take up our time. However, we paid on the spot because service that good should not be unpaid. But the fact that they offered, trusting us to come in and pay when we returned was very kind and very atypical of the world we currently live in.
We are customers for life….well….as long as we’re in Florida.

So a friend of mine recommended this place to me. The name seemed appealing and I love garlic knots so I finally gave them a chance while I was in the area. The waitress kept hovering over our table. My friend and I were chatting it up as we hadn’t seen each other in 2 years, but she wouldn’t give us a chance to look over the menu and kept rushing us even though they didn’t close for 2 hours. She also never brought us a sample of the supposedly famous “garlic knots”. We each ordered some wings (different flavors) and a few slices of pizza. I had the plain cheese pizza and my friend ordered his with some meatballs and jalapenos. They just put the meatball and jalapenos on top of a regular slice of cheese pizza and didn’t even bother to add a little more cheese on the toppings. Both of our wings sucked. They were overcooked and dry with the sauce slathered on. The place says they carry New York Style pizza, but even my cheese slices were nowhere near New York’s quality. The dough is way too thick and chewy to be anything like New York Style pizza. I wouldn’t bother with this place and when I see my friend who recommended this place to me, he is going to get an earful from too.

Food is tasty, huge portions. Their knots are so yummy. Deserts not so much. We tried chocolate cake, tiramisu and cheesecake, not so great unfortunately. Other than that everything was pretty good. I really hope they fix their deserts soon.